AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540X Mobile +336%

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

VS

GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1211 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

38.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

1240 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1240 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

77.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GF108

Polaris 23 MXL

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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